Austin

Hello,

I have only been a member of this group for about a week. So I apologize if I missed my answer somewhere on this site.

When is the next meeting? I would like to get together with other drupal beginners and experts to discuss setting up a drupal site. Being new to drupal, I installed 5.7 and have been playing around with the basic core features. But where to go from there is the question. Also there are parts of drupal I don't really understand - taxonomy, cck, views, setting up the administrative side of things. Did I say I was new to drupal? :)

LevelTen is looking for a sharp Drupal developer to work as part of a small team developing community music portals. LevelTen is a professional Internet consulting and Web development company based in Dallas, Texas. We specialize in best-in-class website design and online marketing. This is a three-month, contract-to-hire position.

Hey Y'all,
I have been working with drupal off and on for a while now... I have a really (what I think will be ) simple question- but I have not really found a good answer to it...

I am looking for a way to use drupal to replace yahoogroups. What I need to be able to do:
1. is have users start threads via email
2. have the threads stored, just like our Organic Group here is doing
3. be able to alter the emails slightly (putting them into a template)

The Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit which provides professional training, advocacy, and membership-based services for educators and parents of gifted and talented children. We are looking for someone to assist us in stripping our website out of a proprietary CMS and reproducing it with Drupal themes. Our Austin office is located on the IH-35 access road between Riverside and Oltorf (south).

Looking for a adventurous unique individual to work a 6 month contract leading a small team of developers in Beijing China in our permanent China office beginning this September after the 2008 Olympics. Being from the Austin area is desirable, where our headquarters is located to facilitate communications plus we all know the Austin developers are the best! Or, if you are located in Beijing now with significant Drupal experience we have an excellent opportunity for your consideration.

When: 5:00pm-6:00pm (tentatively)
Where: GSD&M Idea City, Omega Lab (2nd floor)

If you will be in Austin for SXSW and you love Drupal, come show it at BarCamp Austin 3! There are lots of rooms and times available, so the schedule is very flexible. There should be plenty of time and space for anyone to present, maybe multiple.

Nextscreen (www.nextscreen.com) is looking for a lead software engineer to lead and work on a new set of Drupal-based websites. Here is the job description:

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Job Description:

This is happening tomorrow, March 1, 10:00am to 6:00pm in the Texas Union at UT.

Texas Community Media to Hold Summit in Austin

Austin, TX – The Texas Community Media Summit, hosted by channelAustin (aka Public Access Community Television), Dallas iMedia Network, Houston Media Source, and the Texas Media Empowerment Project will take place at 10 am on Saturday, March 1, at the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Union. Organizers expect 150 to 200 people from across the state.

Attention Drupalers: Will you be in Austin for SXSW 2008?

If you haven't heard, BarCamp Austin 3 will be taking place at GSD&M Idea City in Austin, TX on Saturday, March 8th, 2008. This event is FREE to everyone and will feature a wide variety of presentations, demos, and entertainment.

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

What

My friend whurley has launched an online poll to bring open source to the attention of politicians -- specifically, the presidential candidates. He, like many of us, is troubled by the recent calls for patent reform put forth by larger companies that may wind up blocking innovation and threatening open source-oriented companies and contractors.

You can view the poll here and vote for which candidate you believe is best for the open source community. (Don't worry: "None of them" is an option!)

Edit 2/10/08. DISREGARD THIS POST.

The signup.module has been implemented on this site.

Moshe recently added a New Attendees tab on event nodes here on g.d.o. If you go to an Event page such as the Austin Meetup on Sat, 2/09/08 and run your mouse over the i am not attending link at the bottom of the event description, it should tell you the following:

Mark me as "attending" for this event

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

What

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! Walt has suggested a Lightning Talks format.

When

Saturday, February 9th 2-5 pm.

Where

St. Edward's University, Trustee Hall, room 205

Hey folks,

I'm only throwing this out as an option since I haven't seen any other ideas for February. If you have an alternative idea, let's hear it!

In the meantime and for our February meetup, what do you think about doing something similar to the Boston's group's Lightning Talks?

At several past Austin Drupal meetups, I've heard questions on databases so I thought I'd share this with you.

Achieving Optimal MySQL Performance For Drupal

Enjoy,
Walt

P.S. When and where is our next meetup? :) I enjoyed our last one! Thanks in advance!!

Hey everyone!

Thanks again to Matt V., Jonathon, and Sam for their wonderful presentations last night and for the excellent hosting!

Also, I'm trying to recollect some of the comments made last night. If I heard correctly, Matt primarily used "Views" and "Taxonomy" for his presentation; specifically, he used "Taxonomy" (mysite.com/admin/content/taxonomy) to classify content into categories and subcategories. Jonathon, on the other hand, primarily used "Content types" (mysite.com/admin/content/types) in lieu of "Taxonomy" to classify content. Is that correct?

It's been a while since I've made it out to an Austin Drupal Users Group meet-up, so I thought I'd just start a thread of sharing what we have all done locally lately..

Some sites that involve elements I'm particularly fond/proud of are below:

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Hello Austin Drupalers,

After the success of the last November meetup (http://groups.drupal.org/node/7101), studley181 (Jonathon) and I will be hosting the next Austin Drupal Groups Meetup on January 16, 7pm, at the Austin Optaros Office (801 Congress Ave, above the Chipotle.)

I just built my first module today. It is inanely simple, but it works. I created two fields that the user fills in, and using the values from those fields I made it do a simple calculation. Now I'm trying to figure out how to take the results from those calculations and control the output a bit more. The only way that I have found to print the results from a form in drupal is with drupal_print_message. This works for single result equations, but later I need to be able to end up with multiple results and do more advanced formatting with tables or unordered list.

Heya gang!

So Calvaryaustin.org is going to be moving off of CMS made easy. not including their fron page the entire site is in flash and iframes.
It was really done poorly. I have been tasked with migrating to Drupal! I am so new to drupal and really could use some help.

For instance the front page is pade up of a header main body and three unique graphics that change out.

Not sure how I would template this correctly in drupal.
If you have a suggestion take a look at www.calvaryaustin.org and give me some advice.

Here on this page you can see he has a social bookmarking mod and a weighted Tagging mod installed.

http://www.seoecom.com/cms-taxonomy

Any ideas what mods he is using?

Also What was the drop down menu that was brought up in last nights meeting?

Thanks!

-J

Do you want to receive an email each time a message is posted to this group? This will allow you to know right away when an event for the Austin group is being planned and, more importantly, the actual details once the host/coordinator has firmed up the plans.

If you aren't already subscribed via email to the threads on the Austin group, here's how you do it.

Hi,
Drupal Groups member "studley" and I are hosting the next Austin Drupal Groups Meetup on Nov. 28, 7pm, at the Austin Optaros Office (8th and Congress, above the Chipotle.)

We plan to discuss custom theming, custom module development, and facilitate general Drupal discussion. This should be a great opportunity for the Austin Drupal community to meet up and discuss Drupal issues, and share knowledge that will benefit everyone. If you have ideas for topics you would like to discuss, or any specific questions about the event, feel free to ask in the comments or email me.

Thanks,

I am pleased to announce the release of the Drupal "SEO" Checklist Module.

The "SEO" Checklist Module provides a list of good Search Engine Optimization actions that you should take to maximize the presence of your website in the major search engines. It provides little functionality itself but rather it helps you keep track of what needs to be done.

**Benefits:

GeekAustin and door64.com are co-sponsoring an Austin LinkedIn Happy Hour on Thursday, October 25th at 5:30pm.

(door64.com is a Drupal site, by the way!)

Expand your network, enjoy free hors d'oeuvres, have a drink and a good time! Maybe you'll find some other Drupalers too.

Interested? Email matt@door64.com for an evite.

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Matt

I was sorry to be out of town and miss the first meeting since I joined the group, particularly as I really would have liked to learn more about Search Engine Optimization On that theme, I have a question now I am wondering whether you covered or whether anyone has any insight into. I tried asking on the Drupal forum but no one responded. Perhaps, since SEO is in focus here at Drupal Austin, some people will find it interesting to address this question.

I learned a lot at the Tuesday meeting. Thanks for starting this group.

After the meeting, it occurred to me that the group might benefit from a group development meeting sometime. Or perhaps, a forum exploring how can we helped each other more.

I am posting this here in hopes that someone else has worked with Todd's BareBones theme and can provide some insight into my issue.. I've got a background-image on the footer that looks fine in FF, but the footer itself is shifted left ~24px (or a couple em's?) in IE6. I think it works fine in IE7 but haven't yet tested there.

The site underway:
dev.luigispatioristorante.com
(preferred not to be linked.. keeps the crawlers away)

Anyone have any idea what's going on?

I'm passing this along because I think it's helpful to the Drupal community and I believe all Drupal groups could benefit from it. A while back, I came across get copies of books to share as provided by greggles (thanks Greg Knaddison!) and decided to sign up the Austin Drupal Users Group with Apress as an "Apress User Group".

This week, I received a letter from Apress asking me to "remind your members of their exclusive Apress User Group Program discount of 25% off ALL Apress books!" I scanned the letter which you can view in the attached PDF file. In addition, I've attached Apress' free chapter on theming, Chapter 8, "The Theme System", as a PDF file. You should see it below under "File attachments". It's 875 KB and you'll need Adobe Acrobat to read it.

Read on for more info.

Regards,
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
$50 Hosting Discount Helps Projects Needing Financing

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate. Be sure to introduce yourself to the group.

This position is located in New York City. We will pay relocation expenses for the right candidate.

Inc.com and FastCompany.com, two of the fastest-growing and most prominent business web sites in the U.S., have a position open on their technology staff. We are looking for a senior candidate who has extensive experience with the Drupal content management platform.

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate. Be sure to introduce yourself to the group.

I'm going to do a presentation to the 501 Tech Club next week (Monday, July 16) on Drupal. The 501 Tech Club is a social/networking organization for tech people at non-profit (so-called 501(c)) organizations. This will be a completely introductory (non-developer) presentation. I think what I'm going to do is start with a laptop and the Drupal 5.1 tarball and show them how, in about half an hour, I can setup a complete community site with Drupal.

If you know anybody who might be interested in seeing Drupal work, feel free to pass along the info.

More info here: http://groups.nten.org/group.htm?mode=gvb&igid=6493&op=ViewArticle&artic...

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate. Be sure to introduce yourself to the group.

I've packaged and uploaded the three themes we discussed at recent meetings (Nirvana, Nirvana Skeleton, and Barebones): files.fourkitchens.com/drupal.

IMPORTANT: These are unofficial, marginally untested, alpha releases! Official versions of the themes will be uploaded to Drupal's CVS when we're completely happy with them. Your mileage may vary!

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers!
Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate. Be sure to introduce yourself to the group.

I'm interested in working with others to explore Drupal and Video with a goal of developing a meet-up presentation on this topic.

I don't want to define it too much here, because I'd rather this be a collaborative effort. For now, I'm curious of the registered users in this group, who among us are interested in video.

The modules listed below are in some way useful for video. I've not used or tested any of them. This is what I'm interested in doing as well as finding others here who may have experience already.

Hey Austin!

If you want to give a shout out as to what you do and how you're working with Drupal, that would be great!

During our meetups, we really don't have time for attendees to share detailed intros with the group. We tried intros at one of our meetups and, in the process, consumed over an hour when we could have been learning or teaching others about Drupal.

As a result, intros at future meetups will be great if they're no more than 10 seconds long each to provide basics such as your name, your organization, and what you're doing/hoping to do with Drupal, e.g. "Hi, I'm Walt Esquivel, I'm with Wellness Corps, and I'm using Drupal to help me establish a wellness presence primarily through Organic Groups." For everything else intro-related that you want to share with the Austin DUG, please do it online. This page is the place for you to do it! :)

Can someone please post what modules are being used to create this wiki type page? (Selwyn 10-3-07)

These notes were originally part of this article. I moved them to this wiki page so that others could contribute comments and corrections.

General Order of Setup

These are the things generally done (in order) to configure a Drupal site after initial installation.

• Site Configuration > Clean URLs
• Site Configuration > Site Information
• Site Configuration > Date and Time (set time zone)

The 6/19 meetup was once again at Four Kitchens studios. During tonight's gathering, David Strauss talked about multi-site Drupal configuration, basic site configuration procedure, and (the night's main topic) most essential and useful modules for a Drupal site. The meeting was very well attended (about 20 people) and David (as always) gave a great presentation.

Time is running out to sign up for the Drupal Theming Workshop being presented by Digett.

Here is a run-down of the details:
Date: June 22nd, 2007 9:30 AM through 04:30 PM
Location: The Parish Room, 214 E. Sixth St. Austin, TX 78701
Cost: $199.00

Full information and registration can be found here.

Roger Lopez

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers!
Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers!
Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers!
Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

Tonight's Austin Drupal meeting was the first I attended. And I enjoyed it. I'm especially glad to see follow-up meetings set for CiviCRM, Basic Drupal Installation, and Theming -- for this June.

As I said at the meeting, around the country there is interest on the part of public access and community media in Drupal.

Here is a website where some of this development is described:
www.pegspace.org

On this site, it mentions Manhattan Neighbohood Networks' work with CiviCRM.

Blogging Systems Group, the leading blog services provider to the real estate industry, is seeking an Experienced Designer that is comfortable customizing themes for Drupal CMS. The following skills are required:

• Photoshop skills
• XHTML skills
• CSS skills
• PHP skills
• Drupal PHPTemplate skills
• Some MySQL skills
• Some JavaScript skills

Bonus if you understand:

• Cross-browser compatibility
• Accessibility (Section 508)
• Web Standards

Come join the Digett team as we present an all-day, hands-on Drupal theming workshop.

Hey Austin,

Because of travel, I have not been able to go to the last two Austin Drupal get togethers. I am very interested in learning a little bit more about Drupal- I have a demo site that I have set up, but now need some help on taking Organic Groups to the next level.

I am wondering if anyone is available / interested in getting together this next week for an unofficial get together, again at the Dog and Duck, at 7 pm on Tuesday 5/15/07.

If there are at least a couple of people that can join in, I would enjoy getting together with you.

What I am working on:

EDIT dated 5/30/07. I'm hoping someone with Drupal experience will step forward and give a short "Welcome to Drupal" presentation at the meetup on Tuesday. In addition, I'm hoping a few folks step forward and volunteer to give module presentations and/or overviews. If you plan on presenting something, could you please add a short blurb below as to what you will cover for the meetup? Thank you!